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CHICAGO — Lawyers for Heather Mack have asked a federal judge in Chicago to impose the minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and grant her credit for nearly 10 years already spent behind bars for her role in the headline-making murder of her mother, whose bludgeoned body was found stuffed in a suitcase in the Bali resort where they’d been vacationing a decade ago. With good-time credit, the sentence requested by Mack’s defense team would likely mean she would spend only about three more years in prison for Sheila von Wiese Mack’s gruesome 2014 slaying, which sparked international media attent…

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